Safety razor



1947. V c. J. BLAKENEY 3 SAFETY RAZOR Filed NOV. 9, 1944 FLU-7 v Fur-Z1 Patented Feb. 4, 1947 UNITED fsrres PATENT orrlcs SAFETY RAZOR Cyrus .l. Blakeney, Charlotte, N. C. Application November 9, 1944, Serial No. 562,644

1 Claim.

i This invention relates to a safety razor and more especially to a safety razor so constructed that the lather and cut beard will not clog up within the razor or between the guard and the blade, but will work outwardly through suitable openings in the guard plate of the razor and remote from the face of the user.

It is an object of this invention to provide a safety razor which has a bottom or base plate and a top or guard plate, with the top plate having tooth guard members and a razorblade adapted to be secured between the bottom member and the top member, the top member being adapted to be penetrated by a suitable threaded end portion of the handle member and the handle member having a shoulder portion adapted to press against the outer surface of the top portion and being adapted to be threadably embedded in the bottom portion which is next to the face of the user for clampingly holding a blade therebetween, with a substantial space being disposed between the top member and the blade and the top member having openings there through, through which lather, out beard and the like, may pass, instead or clogging up between the blade and top member.

It is another object of this invention to provide a safety razor wherein the parts can be very economically manufactured, and thus providing an improved razor with the hereinafter described features which is low in cost and of sturdy construction, which is not likely to become easily damaged in any way.

Some of the objects of the invention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, which- Figure 1 is an elevation looking at the end portion of the razor;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional View taken along the line 2-2 in Figure 1, and omitting the blade;

Figure 3 is an isometric view of what I term the bottom portion of the razor, or that portion which rubs against the skin of the user while being employed in shaving;

Figure 4 is an elevation of a type of blade adapted tobe used in this razor;

Figure 5 is an elevation of the guard plate or top member looking upwardly in Figure l and mg the handle;

,ure 6 is a sectional View taken along the line E5 in Figure 5;

Figure 7 is an elevation of the handle member disassociated from the other parts of the razor.

Referring more specifically to the drawing, the

numeral l indicates the bottom or base portion of the razor which goes next to the skin of the user, this plate having a threaded hole 2? therein into which the threaded portion 2b of a handle member 3 is adapted to threadably fit. The member 5 has a pair of slots 21 therein for receiving gears 22a of projections 22 on a guard member 2. It will be noted that these members 22 on guard member 2 are shouldered at the top to provide ears projecting slightly higher in the middle as at 22a to fit into the cavity 2% in the piece indicated by reference character i.

The guard member 2 has a shouldered portion 24 which is adapted to space the guard portion 2 from the razor blade 23 when in assembled position and the handle member 3 has a shoulder portion Zea which is adapted to fit against the upper side of the guard 2, that is, the side next to the handle, or remote from the skin of the user.

The projections 22 with ears 22a fitting into the slots 2!, provide a space 2% between the blade 23 and the guard plate 2. The guard plate 2, as will be noted, has suitable openings 25 therein which are formed by cutting out the portion 22 on three sides, and turning them at right angles to form portions 22 and 22a, and leaving substantial openings 25 in the guard plate 2. The lather and out beard will pass into this space 25 and be forced through the openings 25 toward the handle portion and thus will not become easily clogged up during use and thus will not require frequent washing or cleansing.

The guard member Zhas an unthreaded opening 28 therethrough, through which the threaded portion 28 of the handle member 3 passes.

In the drawing and specification, there has been set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention and where those specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being defined in the claim. r

I claim:

A safety razor comprising a base plate adapted to slidably engage the skin of the user and a guard plate, said base plate having a pair of transversely disposed cavities in its surface that is next to the guard plate, and a guard plate having a pair 02 projections on one side thereof,

and extending transversely of the guard plate and having shoulders at the top defining ears fitting into the cavities in the base plate, said guard plate having a centrally disposed perforation through which a handle is adapted to be 3 passed and having a raised portion projecting toward the inner side of the base plate, the raised portion and the projections serving to space the blade a substantial distance from the guard plate at all points, the ears on the guard plate being adapted to penetrate suitably disposed holes in a razor blade, said handle member having a threaded portion adapted to penetrate the opening in the guard plate and the base plate having a threaded opening adapted to threadably receive the threaded portion of the handle member, and the handle member having a, shoulder member thereon adapted to fit on the outer side of the guard plate for detachably and firmly securing the guard plate, the blade, and the base plate together, the guard plate having a pair of openings extending therethrough adjacent the transversely disposed projections REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name 7 Date 1,751,215 Muller Mar. 18, 1930 1,103,904 McCain July 14, 1914 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date I 380,958 British Sept. 29, 1932 

